Drivers of the solar wind: Then and now

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1839, 2006, Pages 505-527

  Hollweg, Joseph V ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal holes; Ion cyclotron resonance; Magnetohydrodynamic waves; Solar corona; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644435113     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1713     Document Type: Review

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